Title :
Preliminary results: Humans find emotive non-anthropomorphic robots more calming
Author :
Bethel, Cindy L. ; Salomon, K. ; Murphy, R.R.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes preliminary results of a large-scale, complex human study in HRI in which results show that participants were calmer interacting with non-anthropomorphic robots operated in an emotive mode versus a standard, non-emotive mode.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; statistical analysis; HRI; emotive nonanthropomorphic robot; human-robot interaction; variance; Atmospheric measurements; Educational institutions; Humans; Particle measurements; Robots; Standards; Temperature measurement; Affective Computing; Affective Robotics; Doubly Multivariate Analysis; Experimental Design; Human-Robot Interaction; Urban Search and Rescue Robotics; Victim Management;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
La Jolla, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-60558-404-1
